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Submission + - Former Equifax CIO Charged With Insider Trading (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by OffTheLip on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:45PM

OffTheLip writes: Jun Ying, a former CIO with Equifax has been charged with insider trading by the US Department of Justice. From the linked article:

Wednesday’s announcement marks the first criminal charge brought in one of the largest data breaches in history. Ying, the former chief information officer for Equifax’s U.S. information-solutions business, used confidential information entrusted to him by the company to determine it had been hacked, according to a separate complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Text messages sent by Ying appeared to indicate knowledge of the data breach prior to being announced by Equifax. Hours after sending the text Ying sold close to a million dollars in company stock.

Submission + - Is Mt Everest shrinking? (phys.org) 1

Submitted by OffTheLip on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:07PM

OffTheLip writes: Recent scrutiny into the officially recorded height of the worlds tallest mountain will lead to a re-measurement. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal in 2015 is being eyed as the reason.
India's surveyor general Swarna Subba Rao said, We will remeasure it,Two years have passed since the major Nepal earthquake and there's doubt in the scientific community that it did in fact shrink.

A team will depart once winter passes to take measurements to determine the current height Everest.

Submission + - Tech companies and age bias (observer.com)

Submitted by OffTheLip on Sunday April 24, 2016 @08:58AM

OffTheLip writes: A recent editorial in the Observer by Dan Lyons highlights overt negative bias towards older tech workers including his personal journey as an aging worker. Information technology is young business in comparison to many other industries but one of the few where older workers are not valued for their institutional knowledge. It is accepted that current trends are for the young, the agile, workers with seemingly tireless work ethic and dedication. None of these traits are associated with older workers. Lyons draws comparisons to other successful workforce diversity efforts that seemingly don't apply to the tech world. He makes an argument for what the older worker brings to the team in experience and wisdom. As a recently retired techie I experienced this firsthand, both as a older worker, and earlier in my career one who didn't see the value in older workers. As Lyons states, older workers are good business.

Submission + - HP server killer firmware update on the loose

Submitted by OffTheLip on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:33AM

OffTheLip writes: According to a Customer Advisory released by HP and reported on by the Channel Register website, http://www.channelregister.co.... , a recently released firmware update for the ubiquitous HP Proliant server line could disable the network capability of affected systems. Broadcom NICs in G2-G7 servers are identified as potentially vulnerable. The release date for the firmware was April 18 so expect the number of systems affected to go up. HP has not relreased the number of systems vulnerable to the update.

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